This is my message to people who get discouraged to the extent of attempting to entirely quit and give up, even when they are successful, and their fans are totally behind them through thick and thin, because of the effect of negative commentary and criticism they get whenever they produce any content.
Just get started. Do you know how much we are supposed to not listen to any negative feedback? The kind of nonconstructive criticism that does nothing but discourage us? I had an entire chapter in the Genius Human book 1 that was dedicated to the impossibility of reaching any kind of success if you are smart enough without not giving a damn about what anybody else thinks. You’ve got to communicate with yourself. Extract the words and ideas from yourself, without passing them through other people’s approval first, and put them out in the world, without expecting that people wouldn’t judge you or give you negative feedback or negative commentary because of them. Do not be afraid of the backlash. There are conflicts that occur in our minds on an unconscious level, and some of these conflicts involve tendencies to play it safe, to pander, to not cause trouble to ourselves, to not expose ourselves to danger, to stay comfortable, to not dare, to not try risky stuff. Just because it is coming from our unconscious mind and it feels good or right doesn’t mean that it is the right choice. You’ve got to sit down and reason with yourself, and understand the principles upon which you should adhere to or follow through thick and thin. There is always a strong reason not to do new stuff. There is always a very convincing reason for staying in the comfort zone. Do not fight this battle. Just figure out that you are supposed to do certain stuff and go do them without asking for reasons why you should be doing them every time you attempt to do them. The thinking mode is different from the executive mode. That is why we advocate for planning before acting, executing, or putting any piece of advice into practice. If you stop to think about what is the best thing that you should aim for, address, or do at the moment, you’re triggering the thinking mode. If you enter the thinking mode, it will be very difficult for you to get back into action or execution mode, that is, the doing mode. It is like when you are rudely awakened during sleep by some noise and it becomes so hard to fall back to sleep although you are still tired and you feel sleepy. Do not expect to be motivated by reasons from the start. Any amount of reasons that you motivate yourself with could be easily countered by another set of reasons as to why you shouldn’t exert any kind of effort in that direction or why you should not do this thing at all in the first place. Discover what you’re supposed to do while you’re in a state of planning and thinking, write it down, then do them any time when you can without reasoning, or without questioning whether or not these are the things that you should be doing at the moment, or whether or not this is the best use of your current time possible. When working it has to be like you’re running without stopping or pausing for a second, not even to figure out what you should work on next, because once you’ve started there should be no stopping you then, or else your mind would become reluctant to give you this unstoppable energy or activation energy that is enough to complete anything you aspire to finish today, and also because you do not want to receive reward without finishing the task first, or else the reward will be associated with exerting effort pointlessly until fatigued, or without necessarily making significant progress, instead of being received or (the sense of reward being) released into your brain because of finishing something great. You want to train yourself to keep working on what you’ve predetermined to be worth working on until this thing or the task at hand is finished and is completed beyond perfection. You want to become results oriented instead of fatigue oriented. You want to become a person concerned with being productive, with reaching amazing outcomes, getting tasks done, and accomplishing great results every day, not with exerting effort until you’re exhausted, and not with working on whatever task or goal they randomly or arbitrarily pick or on anything they dread or hate until fatigued, then they jump to have fun now because they have no choice, because being tired justifies taking the rest of the day off. Just do it, because you’ve already reached the conclusion in the past that you should be doing this thing now, even if you cannot recall any of the convincing arguments that you were motivated to do this thing because of in the past at the time of execution. Don’t try to reason with yourself at the time of execution. You will always fail, or will always come up with a better idea until you run out of energy having generated countless ideas while having executed none of them. Not to mention summarizing why your life sucks and why it is hopeless and pointless to try to fix anything or make anything better. Don’t talk with yourself. Work like a slave, bot, or soldier from the start that has no free will or authority to say no to doing what they were ordered to do today. Then when you’re done, you can start thinking all you want, and you can start fighting with yourself and telling yourself how much of a joke of a human being you really are. But do this in the down time. While watching a movie or something. Not at the time when you would be unwise to waste any of your energy on thinking instead of doing. Don’t give up because of an inner struggle or an inner conflict. And don’t give up because of the backlash you get from society. Regardless of how amazing your work is, there will always be trash people who would make fun of you and your work. Don’t worry about it, they are always out there. And they make a living out of making fun of great people and amazing stuff. Do not let that discourage you, in the slightest. At least you got a platform that you can express through it what you think about what pisses you off. It sucks so hard to want to say extraordinary stuff without being able to make your words reach anyone, like when your channel is too small. It’s like giving a great speech to an empty room. Please do not underestimate the importance of being able to speak your mind to a huge audience like the one you’ve got already.